# RailsForum.com **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [June 17, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884 "2006-06-17T22:55:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/1 "2006-06-17T22:55:51Z")
A lot of the traffic on this list involves questions that may be better suited for a forum environment. [RailsForum.com](http://RailsForum.com) has people of all experience levels and, while very new, is proving to be a useful place for getting help. Just in case folks hadn’t heard about it, - Danger ---
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/2 "2006-06-17T23:01:59Z")
erm… these two seem to be interconnected… On Jun 17, 2006, at 11:54 PM, Danger Stevens wrote: > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) > –ktolis > [http://iridium.csd.auth.gr/~ktolis](http://iridium.csd.auth.gr/~ktolis) ---
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2006, 11:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/3 "2006-06-17T23:31:25Z")
Î?Ï?Ï?Ï?Ï?ολοÏ? Î?αρακούÏ?ηÏ? wrote: > erm… these two seem to be interconnected… Not so, the rails “forum” at [ruby-forum.com](http://ruby-forum.com) is gated to this mailing list. [railsforum.com](http://railsforum.com) is a relatively new “pure” forum that’s not gated to an email list. I’d love to see one of the mail pure forums gain a critical mass as I personally prefer a forum based community for a lot of my questions. ---
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/4 "2006-06-18T03:06:41Z")
Sam D. wrote: > None of my messages are getting to > this list… Are you sure? This one made it OK. Best regards, Bill ---
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/5 "2006-06-18T00:00:46Z")
None of my messages are getting to this list and I’m not sure why. I’d appreciate some kind of reason as to why my messages don’t get to the list anymore. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Danger\_Stevens](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Danger_Stevens)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2006, 3:12am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/railsforum-com/95884/6 "2006-06-18T03:12:48Z")
Danger Stevens wrote: > A lot of the traffic on this list involves questions > that may be better suited for a forum environment. I’m sort of new to all this so I hope you’ll forgive the stupid-newb question, but… What’s a ‘forum environment’? How does it differ from a mailing list? If you’re talking about IRC vs. email, how does the Ruby IRC not meet your needs? Just FYI, I’m all in favor of a ‘channel’ approach. This list has far too many channels (e.g. dev env setup vs. dev vs. prod. env setup vs. prod env choices vs. …) How would your approach address this ‘issue’? Thanks. Bill